There is no doubt that Mesmer had returned to Paris for the purpose of making money, and these commissions were promoted in part by persons desirous of driving him out. "It is interesting," says a French writer,"to peruse the reports of these commissions: they read like a debate on some obscure subject of which the future has partly revealed the secret." Says another French writer (Courmelles): "They sought the fluid, not by the study of the cures affected, which was considered too complicated a task, but in the phases of hypnotic sleep.
These were considered indispensable and easily regulated by the experimentalist.When submitted to close investigation, it was, however, found that they could only be induced when the subjects knew they were being hypnotized ,and that they differed according as they were conducted in public or inprivate.
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